Mike, what is the latest dustup now between the cruz and the rubio campaign. Reporter senator ted cruzs Communications Director tweeted an article. In it the article claimed that senator marco rubio told a crew staffer in South Carolina that there were not many answers in the holy bible. Today rubio blasted the cruz camp for dirty tactics. You guys have to be saying this. Now its every single day something comes out of the cruz thats untrue and in this case goes after my faith. Reporter earlier on americas newsroom, cruzs exCommunications Director rick tyler accepted blame. I posted it in haste. I should not have done it. I apologized to marco rubio, to the campaign. I posted that on my facebook and shared it on twitter. Im saying it here. It was a mistake. I would not knowingly post something i knew to be false. But you are right the judgment about what he said was wrong. So i apoll jitz about that. That is just the latest in a series of skirmishes between the rubio and cruz campaigns
Lets begin with cnns joe johns at the white house. Reporter good morning, chris. For an administration that has tried to downplay the first 100 days as a ridiculous standard, they have also tried to orchestrate and promote the president s successes or what they see as president s successes. Going so far as set up a war room in the west wing to track it. Now a flurry of activity in the final days. We have a once in a Generation Opportunity to do something really big. Reporter after much hype, the white house revealing a onepage summary of the tax wish list which includes slashing tax rates for corporations, reducing the number of tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction for individuals. The skeletal outline would mainly benefit wealthy americans and devoid of any details of what it would cost and how it would be paid for. This will pay for itself with growth and reduced reduction of different deductions and closing loopholes. Reporter many economists are challenging this as a ma
Tapes may be in the hands of investigators now. Well have new details as soon as things wrap up in court and bring them to you. Then there is this. The former head of the fbi releasing a scathing rebuke of President Trump. James comeys tell all book, higher loyalty refers to the forest fire, the trump presidency, and describes what he sees as a baffling lack of concern from the then president elect when james comey and other Intelligence Leaders first revealed to himhad meddle election. His first question was, to confirm that it had no impact on the election, and then the conversation, to my surprise, moved into a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this, they actually started talking about drafting a press release with us still sitting there, and the reason that was so striking to me is that thats just not done, that the Intelligence Community does intelligence, the white house does pr and spin. You also said you were struck by wh